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Police manned checkpoints, and officers and paramilitary troops patrolled pedestrian overpasses and streets surrounding the square.
The increased security comes on top of heightened restrictions on political activists, artists, lawyers and other government critics. Dozens have been taken into detention, forced out of Beijing or confined to their homes in other parts of the country.
"June 4 has come again and the plainclothes officers are here to protect us. I can't leave the house to travel or lecture," Jiangsu province-based environmental activist Wu Lihong said in a text message.
Artist and former activist Guo Jian was also taken away by authorities on Sunday night, shortly after a profile of him appeared in the Financial Times newspaper in commemoration of the crackdown's anniversary. As he was being detained, Guo, an Australian citizen, told an Associated Press reporter he would be held until June 15.
A writer and officer of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, who writes under the name Ye Du, was also taken from his home in the southern city of Guangzhou to join a forced "tour trip," his wife, Wan Haitao, said by phone. Such compulsory trips are a common method of keeping government critics under 24-hour watch without the need to initiate legal proceedings.
In an apparent sign of government nervousness, connections to the global Internet appeared to have been disrupted, with Google's mail and other services mostly inaccessible. China already routinely blocks popular overseas social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube and heavily censors Chinese sites for politically sensitive content.
China allows no public discussion of the events of June 3-4, 1989, when soldiers accompanied by tanks and armored personnel carriers fought their way into the heart of the city, killing hundreds of unarmed protesters and onlookers. The government has never issued a complete, formal accounting of the crackdown and the number of casualties.
Beijing's official verdict is that the student-led protests aimed to topple the ruling Communist Party and plunge China into chaos. Protest leaders said they were merely seeking greater democracy and freedom, along with an end to corruption and favoritism within the party.
Asked about the crackdown at a regularly scheduled news conference, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei did not refer directly to Tiananmen Square or the military crackdown.
"Regarding the political incident which happened in the late 1980s in China, as well as issues related to it, the Chinese government reached a conclusion a long time ago," Hong said before launching into a defense of China's economic reforms that have created a burgeoning middle class amid relative political stability.
Hong also denied cases of political persecution, saying: "In China, there are only law offenders. The so-called dissidents as you mentioned do not exist."
Authorities regularly tighten security ahead of June 4, but this year's suppression is notably harsher than in the past. Activists who previously received no more than a warning have been taken into custody and police have told foreign journalists they would face unspecified serious consequences for covering sensitive issues ahead of the anniversary.
A French broadcaster said its journalists were interrogated for six hours by Beijing police when they were found interviewing people on the street about the events 25 years ago.
Despite China's discouragement, the crackdown is recalled with rallies and commemorations in Chinese communities worldwide, especially in Hong Kong, a former British colony that has retained its own legal system and civil liberties since returning to Chinese rule in 1997.
Thousands marched through the city on Sunday in remembrance of the crackdown, and organizers said they expected about 150,000 people to join a candlelight vigil in a city park Wednesday.
In Beijing, college professor Wang Dongcheng said he had been warned by the authorities not to speak to foreign media and posted a few spare lines of poetry on his microblog.
"Tonight, I will remain silent," wrote Wang, who attended a private seminar on the 1989 events last month that resulted in the detention of well-known human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and four others. "Tonight, I will listen in solitude. Tonight, I will be sleepless."


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This is part one in a series on the United States' nuclear obsession. Read part two.
After the nuclear catastrophe of Fukushima, as a German living in the U.S., I often get asked these days: What's going on in Germany with the shutdown of nuclear power plants — is that all mass hysteria? There are good reasons why Germany is moving away so quickly from nuclear power. Certainly, fear is a factor. However, this angst in the face of a nuclear catastrophe has a rational core. Fukushima provides enough grounds to take every single nuclear power plant on the face of the Earth off-line. Regardless of whether the cause is an earthquake, a tsunami, a flood, a plane crash, a terrorist attack, or simple human error, failure of the emergency power system leads to uncontrollable consequences.
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Arturia is no stranger to hybrid software/hardware combination instruments. Its newest, however, attempts to redefine how much flexibility and functionality you can squeeze into a hardware case whilst retaining playability. The result is MiniLab, which offers a 2-octave mini-key keyboard, with no fewer than 16 dials and eight pads above this to complete its main control set.
Throw in four function buttons and two control strips to substitute for pitch bend and modulation wheels and you quickly realise that MiniLab offers as many, if not more, control options than some rival keyboards over twice the size. Already, this is an intriguing prospect.
In the lab
However, the hardware keyboard only forms half of the MiniLab 'package'; the other part is the download of Arturia's 'Analog Lab' software giving access to 5000 sounds accumulated from Arturia's flagship soft synths, including the Jupiter 8V, MiniMoog V and Prophet V to name but three.
Many of these 'full titles' have been reviewed on this site before, so we won't dwell on their capabilities here but suffice to say that as Arturia's reputation was built on its modelling prowess, it's no surprise that the sounds on offer here are almost universally stunning.
They're organised into a database too, so it's simple to search for sounds by instrument type, genre or from a particular synth, significantly cutting down time when searching for a specific sound.
Frustratingly, we do need to advise you that installation of the software isn't quite as straightforward as Arturia's short-cut installation guide suggests. Understandably, the software is protected, using your choice of a hardware USB dongle or the eLicenser application. No problem there.
However, you'd be wise to register your purchase to obtain your licence and get authorised before running the software, rather than attempting to achieve authorisation through launching 'Analog Lab' for the first time, as the manual suggests. Doing this crashed the software app several times before we found this workaround, so consider yourself forewarned.
Hybrid heaven
Installation frustrations are soon eased once you're up and running, however. The sheer quality of the sounds helps enormously (these can be played from any controller keyboard, so if you happen to leave the MiniLab hardware at home, you'll still be able to use the software), as these justify the price point for MiniLab in their own right.
However, the fact that they're all set up to be 'driven' from the keyboard's control surface with listed parameters for each patch sweetens the deal yet further.
The pads (of which there are two banks) are designed to trigger chords - there's a tab on the right-hand edge of the GUI which lets you choose a key-note and a chord type (major, minor, 7th, diminished etc) for each pad, so it's very easy to trigger a chord progression with these whilst adding bass or lead with the keyboard.
Of course, the usual limitations of mini-keys apply here (this reviewer has never been a fan) but they're reflective of the overall 'small is beautiful' philosophy Arturia have adopted here, so the decision is certainly forgivable.
With plenty of sonic editability, Multi and Live modes, iPad compatibility and more besides, at this price point, MiniLab is excellent.
Yes, the keyboard size, the software installation process and the finger-strip substitutes for Pitch and Mod wheels are compromises but, in the grand scheme, these can be lived with. Less is certainly more here.


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After losing a job or suffering some other economic hardship, some Americans have decided they must withdraw money from their 401(k) or other retirement plan in order to cover expenses. Still, experts warn such a decision can carry substantial costs, and risks.
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions.
How much does it cost?
According to the Internal Revenue Service, in most cases you must pay a 10 percent penalty if withdraw funds from your retirement account before reaching age 59½, even if you decide to retire early.
In addition, you will likely have to pay regular income taxes on any money you withdraw.
Are there any exceptions?
Yes. For example, with an IRA, you may be able to avoid the fine if you are using the money to buy a home, you are unemployed and need to pay health care premiums or you are using the money for higher education.
If you have a 401(k), you may avoid the fee if you lost your job and are over age 55.
What are the other risks?
If you withdraw money early from your retirement account, financial experts warn that you face the double whammy of losing that investment in your retirement and losing out on the chance for that investment to grow. That could mean that you have to work longer or live with less in retirement.
The latest business news.
What about borrowing against my retirement account?
The IRS allows people to borrow against their 401(k) plans but not their IRAs. Borrowing money against your retirement funds, rather than withdrawing the funds outright, can be a better option for getting cash now and still saving for retirement. You will still likely pay interest on the loan, however.
If you default on the loan, the IRS will consider that as an early withdrawal, which means you may be subject to penalties.
The IRS provides more information on early withdrawals here and here.


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Hoof, Germany
(Hoof a town in the Kassel district,
today a part of the town Schauenberg)
Year | Number of Residents | Number of Jews | Percent Jewish |
1861 | 1,041 | 172 | 16.5 |
1871 | 1,006 | 136 | 13.5 |
1885 | 1,181 | 161 | 13.6 |
1895 | 1,224 | 162 | 13.2 |
1905 | 1,387 | 137 | 9.9 |
1925 | 1,504 | 106 | 7.0 |
Jews | Catholics | Protestants | Others |
7.0 | 1.7 | 91.0 | 0.3 |
In 1715 there were six Schuetzjuden (protected Jews) in Breitenbach, one of them the owner of a house and a widow, who owned a small home.
In 1744, seven Jewish families settled in Hoof, and eight families in Breitenbach, among them a cantor. In 1776, nine Jewish families lived in Hoof, in Breitenbach, 14. Jews of Hoof barely earned a living in petty trade and in the sale of livestock. In 1799 a melamed (teacher) was in Hoof. In that same year, the Jews of Hoof complained before the Prince of Nassau about the ban imposed by the city rabbi on young men and women dancing but the prince sided with the rabbi.
Wolf Breitenbach (1751-1829, born in Breitenbach) earned exceptional fame. Despite his coming from a poor household, he studied Jewish and secular knowledge in Frankfort and became the Prince of Eisenberg's court factor (or agent), and from 1795, the court factor of the Prince of Hessen. For a time he was counted among the wealthy of Germany, and as a shtadlan (advocate) he strove to annul the degrading body tax (see Offenbach). Josef Speyer (1743-1815), a doctor, graduate of the University of Kassel, although born in Hoof, left his religion and changed his name to Johann Valentin August Speyer (and published a pamphlet which explained his actions).
Three residents of Hoof and of Breitenbach took part in the wars of 1813-15.
In 1823, 26 Jewish families lived in Hoof (128 souls); in Breitenbach, 10 families (34 souls); and in Elmshagen, two families (11 souls).
The combined community was the largest in the kreis (county) of Kassel in the 19th century. In 1839, 32 taxpayers were counted (19 in Hoof, 11 in Breitenbach, and 2 in Elmshagen). In 1857, 37: 26 in Hoof, 10 in Breitenbach, and one in Elmshagen. Ten families were defined as impoverished. In 1861 there were 54 Jews in Breitenbach; in 1905, 31; and in 1925, 19. Fourteen Jews lived in Elmshagen in 1861.
The old Jewish cemetery, in the part allocated to the community adjacent to the Dalwigk home, served the community until 1838. Later, it was closed after many graves were damaged by a spring of water. In 1840, a new cemetery was opened, which was expanded in 1929, and in 1931 the two cemeteries were united. A synagogue in Hoof was situated in a building from 1830. In 1842, the community requested to enlarge it. However, a controversy with the Jews of Breitenbach over the question of financing was not settled until 1849. From that time on, the Jews of Hoof bore the burden by themselves. In 1854 they completed the renovation work. The prayer hall held 48 seats for men and 30 for women. In the basement was a ritual bath, and in the upper story, classrooms and an apartment for the teacher. In 1827 the community opened an elementary school, and Abraham Goldschmidt (1881 retired with a pension, died in 1886) served as a teacher (and kosher butcher and cantor).
In 1827, 28 children studied in this school; in the years 1887-1890, 53 to 56; and in 1902, 38. In 1921 only a few students remained, and it was proposed to merge the school with the Protestant school, but the project was never realized. In the years 1881-1924, the Jewish teacher in Hoof was Meir Rothschild.
In the First World War, 4 of the Jews of Hoof fell, and in 1927, the community put up a memorial plaque in the synagogue with their names on it.
In May 1924 a representative from the Jewish independent list was chosen for the city council. In the same year many tombstones in the community's cemetery were defaced.
The community had a synagogue, a cemetery (2,053 sq. meters), and a ritual bath, as well as kosher slaughter. In 1932, 13 Jewish children studied in the school with the teacher Menko Schirling, who founded the Sisterhood (1925) and the synagogue choir. The Humanitaet charitable society (12 members, founded in 1852) and a branch of the Central Assembly also met in his workplace. The community belonged to the rabbinic district of Kassel, and at its head stood H. Wertheim.
In the elections of Nov. 6, 1932, for the Reichstag, the Nazis received 46% of the votes of residents (compared with 41.2% in all of Hessen-Nassau). The Social Democrats received 33%, and the Communists 16%.
About 10 of the members of the community emigrated to Argentina, Holland and the United States and we have no information about those who remained.
At the end of the war, a Jewish survivor of the camps came back to Hoof, and later immigrated to the United States. The synagogue was used for housing, and in 1985 it was recognized as a protected historic site.
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'Police Academy's' Michael Winslow Performs Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' Entirely With His Mouth [VIDEO]
If you're old enough to remember the 'Police Academy' movies, you might recognize Michael Winslow, a.k.a. 'The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects,' as Sgt. 'Motor Mouth' Jones, the officer who, well, made a lot of sound effects with his mouth. And if you love Led Zeppelin, you're going to want to watch his amazing cover of 'Whole Lotta Love.' Winslow, appearing for some reason on the Norwegian talk show 'Senkveld med Thomas og Harald,' ended up on the couch next to a man with an acoustic guitar who — as men with guitars often tend to do — started noodling around with some Zeppelin riffs.
"Do you want to do it in the original artist's key of E?" asked Winslow, and then…well. You need to see this to believe it:
Can someone give this man his own television series already?
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Girl Lip-Syncs With Herself at Different Ages
Six years ago, when she was 17, Alex Dainis made a video of herself lip-syncing along to the Aaron Carter song 'Aaron's Party (Come Get It.)'
Such a move was pretty questionable at the time, given that the tune came out back in 2000 and featured a 12-year-old Aaron Carter rapping. But, as you will see in the video below, the end justifies the means.
No, those aren't three sisters pretending to belt out the lyrics to 'Aaron's Party.' Instead, it is all Alex. At 17 in the lower left, at 20 in the upper left, and at 23 on the right. As you can see, her hair and eyebrows have evolved over the years.
"My video quality has definitely improved," she writes in the clip's description. "I'm not sure my dance moves have."
Alex says she plans to keep recording the lip dub every three years. If she does, the big winner will be Aaron Carter. We can't think of any other scenario in which people are still talking about the reality TV wannabe three, six or nine years down the road.


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James M. McGuire was born on July 3, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Fordham University in 1975 and received his law degree in 1980 from Cornell University Law School.
Judge McGuire began his legal career in 1980 as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's office, where he remained for five years. From 1985 through 1987, he was an associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Following that, McGuire once again went into public service and became Deputy Counsel to the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, serving through 1989. During the next six years, he once again joined the New York County District Attorney's office, where he served first as Deputy Chief Counsel of the Appeals Bureau and then as Senior Investigative Counsel to the Rackets Bureau.
When George E. Pataki became Governor of New York in January 1995, Judge McGuire joined his administration as First Assistant Counsel. In November 1997, he was named Chief Counsel to the Governor and, in that capacity, played a pivotal role in the administration's efforts to reinstate the death penalty and abolish parole for violent felons. He left Albany in February 2003 and joined the law firm of White & Case LLP as counsel, where he remained until the following year, at which time he was elected to the Supreme Court bench in the 11th Judicial District.
In 2005, after serving less than one year on the Supreme Court bench, Judge McGuire was appointed by Governor Pataki to the Appellate Division, First Department. He remained there until his resignation in 2011, at which time he cited the fact that New York state judges had not been given a pay raise for 12 years and that he had to consider the needs of his young family. In June 2011, he joined the law firm of Dechert LLP as a partner.
Justice McGuire is married to Lisa Baroni, also an attorney. They are the parents of two children.
James McGuire, available at: http://judgepedia.org/index.php/James_McGuire
James M. McGuire, available at: http://dechert.com/james_mcguire
Family Trumps Love of Law for Departing Justice, Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal, November 15, 2010, p.1.
Chief Counsel to Pataki is Resigning Post, New York Times, January 15, 2003, p.B3.


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The cause is sometimes a bacterial infection.
Pain can occur in the area between the scrotum and anus or in the lower back, penis, or testes.
Men feel a frequent, urgent need to urinate, and urination, erection, ejaculation, and defecation may be painful.
Urine and sometimes fluids expressed from the prostate gland are cultured.
Bacterial infection is treated with antibiotics.
Symptoms of prostatitis, regardless of the cause, may be treated with warm sitz baths, relaxation techniques, and drugs.
The prostate is a gland in men that lies just under the bladder and surrounds the urethra. The gland, along with the nearby seminal vesicles, produces much of the fluid that makes up a man's ejaculate (semen). The prostate is walnut-sized in young men but enlarges with age.
Male Reproductive Organs
Prostatitis usually develops for unknown reasons. Prostatitis can result from a bacterial infection that spreads to the prostate from the urinary tract or from bacteria in the bloodstream Bacteremia Bacteremia is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream. Bacteremia may result from ordinary activities (such as vigorous toothbrushing), dental or medical procedures, or from infections ... read more . Bacterial infections may develop slowly and tend to recur (chronic bacterial prostatitis) or develop rapidly (acute bacterial prostatitis). Some people develop chronic prostatitis in the absence of bacterial infection. This type may or may not involve inflammation. Occasionally, prostatitis without bacterial infection causes inflammation but no symptoms.
Symptoms of Prostatitis
In all types of prostatitis that cause symptoms, many of the symptoms are caused by spasm of the muscles in the bladder and pelvis, especially in the area between the scrotum and the anus (the perineum). Pain develops in the perineum, the lower back, and often the penis and testes. Men also may need to urinate frequently and urgently, and urinating may cause pain or burning. Pain may make obtaining an erection or ejaculating difficult or even painful. Constipation can develop, making defecation painful.
With acute bacterial prostatitis, symptoms tend to be more severe. Some symptoms tend to occur more often, such as fever and chills, difficulty urinating, and blood in the urine Blood in Urine Blood in the urine (hematuria) can make urine appear pink, red, or brown, depending on the amount of blood, how long it has been in the urine, and how acidic the urine is. An amount of blood... read more . Bacterial prostatitis can result in a collection of pus (abscess) in the prostate or in epididymitis Epididymitis and Epididymo-orchitis Epididymitis is inflammation of the epididymis (the coiled tube on top of the testis that provides the space and environment for sperm to mature), and epididymo-orchitis is inflammation of the... read more (inflammation of the epididymis).
Diagnosis of Prostatitis
Physical examination
Urinalysis and urine culture
The diagnosis of prostatitis is usually based on the symptoms, physical examination findings, and results of a urine analysis (urinalysis Urinalysis and Urine Culture Urinalysis, the testing of urine, may be necessary in the evaluation of kidney and urinary tract disorders and can also help evaluate bodywide disorders such as diabetes or liver problems. A... read more ) and urine culture Urinalysis and Urine Culture Urinalysis, the testing of urine, may be necessary in the evaluation of kidney and urinary tract disorders and can also help evaluate bodywide disorders such as diabetes or liver problems. A... read more . The prostate, examined through the rectum by a doctor, may be swollen and tender to the touch, particularly in men with acute bacterial prostatitis. Samples of urine and, sometimes, of fluids expressed from the penis after massaging the prostate during the examination are taken for analysis and culture.
Urinalysis may reveal white blood cells, indicating inflammation, or bacteria, indicating infection. Urine cultures reveal bacterial infections located anywhere in the urinary tract. In contrast, when infection is found by culturing fluid from the prostate, the prostate is clearly the cause of the infection. When prostatitis occurs without bacterial infection, urine cultures reveal no infection.
Treatment of Prostatitis
With bacterial infection, antibiotics
Without infection, treatments to relieve symptoms, such as prostate massage, sitz baths, biofeedback, and drugs, and procedures
No infection
When cultures reveal no bacterial infection, prostatitis is usually difficult to cure. Most treatments for this kind of prostatitis relieve symptoms but may not cure the prostatitis. These treatments for symptoms can also be tried in chronic bacterial prostatitis. However, it is not clear how effective these treatments are.
Nondrug treatments may include periodic prostate massage (done by a doctor by placing a finger in the rectum) and sitting in a warm sitz bath. Relaxation techniques (biofeedback Biofeedback Biofeedback, a type of mind-body medicine, is a method of bringing unconscious biologic processes under conscious control. In biofeedback, electronic devices are used to measure and report information... read more ) to relieve spasm and pain of the pelvic muscles have also been used.
Among drug therapies, stool softeners can relieve painful defecation resulting from constipation. Analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs may relieve pain and swelling regardless of its source. Alpha-adrenergic blockers (such as doxazosin, terazosin, tamsulosin, alfuzosin, and silodosin) may help relieve symptoms by relaxing the muscles within the prostate. For reasons that are not understood, antibiotics sometimes relieve symptoms in nonbacterial prostatitis.
If symptoms are severe despite other treatments, surgery, such as partial removal of the prostate, may be considered as a last resort. Destruction of the prostate by microwave or laser treatments is an alternative.
To treat acute bacterial prostatitis, an antibiotic that can penetrate prostate tissue (such as ciprofloxacin or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) is taken for at least 30 days. Taking antibiotics for less time may lead to a chronic infection. Most men can be treated at home and take an antibiotic by mouth, but occasionally men need to be hospitalized and given an antibiotic through a vein.
Chronic bacterial prostatitis can be difficult to cure. It is treated for at least 6 weeks with an antibiotic that can penetrate prostate tissue.
If a prostate abscess occurs, surgical drainage is usually necessary.
Drugs Mentioned In This Article
Generic Name | Select Brand Names |
doxazosin |
Cardura, Cardura XL |
terazosin |
Hytrin |
tamsulosin |
Flomax |
alfuzosin |
Uroxatral |
silodosin |
Rapaflo |
ciprofloxacin |
Cetraxal , Ciloxan, Cipro, Cipro XR, OTIPRIO, Proquin XR |
trimethoprim |
Primsol, Proloprim, TRIMPEX |


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Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, a spin on traditional vanilla that uses richer brown sugar, is an example of how ice cream artisans strive to deliver a more exciting experience to connoisseurs. Photo courtesy of Carmela Ice Cream.
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August 2009
CAPSULE REPORT: Those in the know troll Los Angeles farmers markets for pints of Carmela Ice Cream, a tiny artisan brand that has gained a loyal following. Using fresh-from-the-farm, organic ingredients, Carmela offers riffs on chocolate and vanilla, and opens up new territory: cucumber and heirloom tomato sorbet, for example.
If you are an habitué of certain farmers markets and specialty stores in greater Los Angeles—or Bar on 4 at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills—you can get your fix of Carmela Ice Cream. For other folks, even those in neighboring Orange County, it may be easier to click over to the company's website to score.
Co-founders Jessica Mortarotti and Zachary Cox are husband-and-wife artisanal ice cream makers. Carmela is the name of Jessica's late grandmother, but it also means "garden" in Hebrew—appropriate for the company's fresh-from-the-garden ingredients. (Not only the lemon basil, but the cardamom pods are fresh, organic and picked from the gardens of local farmers.)
Inspired by nature's seasonal palette, Jessica and Zachary have a commitment to organic ingredients and other special items sourced from the very farmers markets where they now sell their ice cream.
Carmela Ice Cream is lighter and more elegant in style than many artisan ice creams—less heavy on the cream, and all the tongue-coating butterfat, enables the delicate flavors and seasonings to show.
Dark Chocolate Cacao Nib ice cream is made with Scharffen Berger chocolate.
Flavors change not only with the season, but seemingly bi-weekly within the season. August flavors include Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean, Dark Chocolate Cacao Nib (99% Scharffen Berger chocolate with crunchy cacao nibs), Lavender Honey, Mint Cacao Nib, Salted Caramel and Strawberry Buttermilk ice cream; and Cucumber, Heirloom Tomato, Lemon Basil, Lime Mint and Spiced Strawberry sorbet.
Yet, a few weeks ago, when the lemon verbena was blooming, there were Lemon Verbena Vanilla Bean and Verbena & Lavender ice creams. Blood Orange and Meyer Lemon sorbets are gone as well; and while Blueberry Thyme sorbet should still be in season in August, perhaps at the end of blueberry season, the blueberries aren't as good as Carmela would like them to be.
Rose Petal Lavender Honey has become simply Lavender Honey. Lilac has gone with the roses: There's no more Saffron Honey Lilac ice cream. Also MIA are the season-agnostic Pistachio Toasted Almond and White Chocolate with Vanilla Bean ice creams. The lesson here: Make hay while the sun shines. If it sounds tempting today, it may not be around to tempt you next week.
Beyond organic ingredients, the company supports sustainability with biodegradable packaging made from sugar cane. It's quite fascinating material, looking like linen stiffened into wallpaper, in white and beige. We liked the containers so much, we saved them with the hope of repurposing them.
In the works is a flagship store for Los Angeles. Until then, Los Angelinos need to find Carmela Ice Cream at small markets—or order their Carmela ice cream online like the rest of us.
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LOS ANGELES – Corey Crawford and Jonathan Quick both realize that even a Stanley Cup ring doesn't protect a goalie from criticism after a bad game.
Crawford and Quick also don't seem to care, and perhaps that's why they're still chasing a second championship.
The NHL's last two Cup-winning goalies meet again when the Los Angeles Kings host the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Saturday night at Staples Center.
Crawford realizes he's under a spotlight after the Blackhawks allowed six goals in the final 22 minutes of Game 2 while the Kings dramatically evened the series. Crawford was in net for five of them, matching his worst goals-against total of the season.
But Crawford has shrugged off criticism for his entire career with the Blackhawks, and one bad playoff game isn't about to bother him. After two days off, he's confident the defending champions can get back on top of their formidable game on the road.
"We've said a million times, not everything is going to go your way all the time," Crawford said Friday after practice at Staples Center. "So we've got to keep playing hard, keep playing the way you can."
Crawford acknowledged feeling personal disappointment "maybe a little bit after the game, but there's things I could fix easily. There was a couple of mistakes in my game. You look over it with the goalie coach and try to adjust what I did wrong."
The Blackhawks can't understand why doubt still exists about their goalie's credentials, but they realize it's out there. They're more focused on their own play in front of Crawford after Los Angeles embarrassed them.
"He comes back strong after every game," said Patrick Kane, who beat out Crawford for the Conn Smythe Trophy last summer. "He's a great goaltender. A lot of us in here feel he's the best in the league."
He has also been accountable. When the Blackhawks gave away two late leads during overtime defeats in their first two playoff games against St. Louis last month, Crawford attempted to take the blame, and he bounced back with nine wins in his next 11 starts.
"I think every year, he has matured in different ways," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. "I just think he's gotten better and better in how to approach a goal that he feels he could have had, (or) a tough loss. I think he has handled all situations. Whether it's a big win or coming off the last game, he moves forward in the proper fashion."
Crawford's save percentage (.926) and goals-against average (2.11) in the current postseason are the best in the Western Conference. They're better than the numbers (.912 and 2.70) posted by Quick, who won the Jennings Trophy for Los Angeles despite an unusual regular season including a seven-week injury absence and an eventful trip to Sochi as the U.S. Olympic team's starting goalie.
Quick betrayed little frustration when the Kings gave up 17 goals in their first three playoff games this spring. He has been largely outstanding since then, which doesn't surprise his teammates.
"Good goalies just park it and move on to the next one," Kings defenseman Willie Mitchell said.
Los Angeles played mostly solid defense in front of Quick in its first two games in Chicago, particularly against Kane, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Sharp. Kane has just one goal in the last seven games — although it was his series-clinching overtime beauty against Minnesota — while Sharp has only two goals in 14 playoff games.
The Kings harbor no illusions about the Blackhawks' motivation after their last loss.
"We have no doubt that (Game 2) hasn't affected them," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said. "They're one of the strongest teams mentally in the league."
The Kings are just 3-3 at Staples Center in the postseason, and the Blackhawks could get a boost from a trip to a road arena where they always play in front of hundreds of red jersey-wearing fans. Game 3 won't decide the series, but two veteran playoff teams realize the stakes during Los Angeles' two home games over Memorial Day weekend.
"They're the defending Stanley Cup champions, and we're well aware of how good a team they are, but also how they're able to battle adversity," Kings captain Dustin Brown said. "If we had given up six unanswered goals, we know how we would want to respond to that."


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Researchers map out world's winegrape varieties
University of Adelaide researchers have compiled statistics from 44 countries to develop the first database of the world's winegrape varieties and regions.
The new database, funded by the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC), provides an in-depth analysis of the world's wine varieties and winegrape growing nations that account for 99% of global wine production.
University of Adelaide School of Economics Professor Kym Anderson says a database of this nature has been highly sought by the wine industry.
"In the wake of wine's globalisation, wine producers need to exploit their geographical and varietal distinctiveness in order to boost their competitiveness. This database, for the first time, offers transparency across the world's wine varieties and regions," Professor Anderson says.
This detailed database also uncovers more about changing trends in wine consumer behaviour.
"The database reveals that 20 years ago Airen, a white winegrape variety from Spain, was the most widely grown globally, but now Cabernet Sauvignon is the world's most grown winegrape," Professor Anderson says.
"In 2000, white winegrapes were more widely grown; however, in the decade to 2010 red winegrapes increased their share of the global vine-bearing area from 49% to 55%.
"This is consistent with what we know about changes in wine consumption, with numerous countries moving away from white and consumption rising in recent years in China where red wine is preferred."
Professor Anderson says wine growers can also use this database to adapt to climate change. "Wine producers are well aware of the impact climate change is having on their winegrapes. They're continually on the lookout for attractive varieties that perform well in climates similar to what they expect theirs to become in the decades ahead."
Dr Stuart Thomson, GWRDC Executive Director, says this database is an exciting new tool for Australian wine producers.
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More information: The database is available online at: www.adelaide.edu.au/wine-econ/databases/winegrapes
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The Fukushima nuclear plant accident has raised concern among many people. They are now searching for clean energy alternatives. Here ar four alternatives to nuclear power.
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Worked from the top down on circular needles, Le Facteur features standard instructions (with stitch counts!) for seven sizes, as well as suggestions for modifying shaping and length for a custom fit. In addition to choosing between a cardigan or pullover, knitters can choose from two edging options, two sleeve lengths, two sets of shaping instructions -- both standard shaping instructions and directions for custom shaping are included. Even the neckline depth is customizable; full instructions and stitch counts are given for the deep V neck shown on the samples, and I've updated the pattern to also include full instructions and stitch counts for a slightly shallower neckline version.
Le Facteur means "the postman" in French, and is the name of a children's game similar to "duck, duck, goose" -- to play the game, children sing a song about how "the postman will never come!" as they wait for the child playing le facteur to go around the circle and tag another child by delivering a piece of "mail."
I named this pattern le facteur because the game reminded me of all the times I have waited impatiently for my postal delivery person to deliver a box of beautiful hand-dyed yarn, like the Sundara yarns which I have used for this design. The lyrics to the Le Facteur song, and instructions for the game, are included in the pattern.
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We're off to The End Of the Road Festival! I'm scheduling this post so hopefully we'll be cracking open our first cider by the time you read this, looking forward to a weekend which includes performances by Patti Smith and Alabama Shakes.
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STEWART, JOHN JAMES, teacher, lawyer, editor, publisher, and businessman; b. 13 May 1844 in East Branch River Philip (Williamsdale), N.S., son of William Stewart and Sarah Emily Peppard; m. 13 Oct. 1880 Catherine Olivia MacKay in Halifax; they had no children; d. there 27 Feb. 1907.
Educated at the East Branch River Philip public school and Amherst Academy, John James Stewart served the latter as headmaster from 1870 before moving to Halifax to study law in the office of Howard Maclean (McLean). Called to the bar in 1874, the next year he became one of 88 shareholders in the city's last morning daily to be founded in the 19th century, the Morning Herald. The paper, backed by such Conservative party notables as Simon Hugh Holmes* and John Sparrow David Thompson*, was a brash and unlikely challenger in an overwhelmingly Liberal province informed at its urban centre by Liberal journals, the Morning Chronicle and Henry Dugwell Blackadar's Acadian Recorder.
Stewart was less active in the beginning than some of the other shareholders, including his law partner Robert Sedgewick, but in 1876 he became the paper's first president and in 1878 its third editor; he left the financially troubled partnership with Sedgewick the latter year. In 1883, after strenuous efforts, he bought the shares of all but a few founders, and he became the Herald's first publisher. His third choice of vocation appalled, then delighted, his brother Douglas. Douglas's opinion that the Herald office was "a more disreputable place" than "the lunatic asylum . . . to find a brother in" quickly changed to a glowing tribute to journalism's good effect on J. J.'s health.
That health was both physical and financial. Stewart's paper, which was joined in 1879 by an afternoon companion, the Evening Mail, quickly became the equal of its rivals in circulation and advertising, and by 1892 (the year it was renamed the Halifax Herald) moved into a lead never relinquished. A frank and forceful seeker of patronage for his newspapers, Stewart irritated and puzzled Conservative ministers in Ottawa with his representations and complaints. That his lobbying was successful was beyond doubt, as was the continued prosperity of his journals even after federal advertising and printing contracts were denied them when the Liberals gained power in 1896. They flourished unaided because his protégé and (from 1882) news editor, William Dennis, whom he had encountered during his temperance work in the 1870s, devoted himself to promotion, circulation, and a vigorous policy of reporting that frequently flirted with the sensational. Stewart's admission of Dennis to a 50-50 partnership in 1897 was evidence that his own commitment to journalism had been challenged, in part by business interests. These included the Acadia Loan Corporation and the People's Bank of Halifax. His presidency of the latter institution was troubled by accusations of corruption privately brought against him and other directors not long before People's was purchased by the Bank of Montreal in 1905.
Stewart's influence within the provincial Conservative party and through his federal connections was considerable. He helped to encourage a reluctant Thompson to enter provincial and then federal politics, and with the equally outspoken Charles Hazlitt Cahan*, his chief editorial writer from 1886 to 1894, he established his newspaper office as the centre of the often disorganized opposition to Premier William Stevens Fielding*. His political acumen was none the less questioned inside and outside his party. Unremitting attacks on Fielding did little to enlist support for the Conservatives, whose policies and leaders, including Cahan in the House of Assembly from 1890 to 1894, his newspapers all too often failed to publicize. Stewart himself failed to gain election to the assembly for Halifax County in 1890 and 1901. A desultory attempt between 1887 and 1891 by Thompson, Cahan, and others to secure a federal civil service appointment for him and put Cahan in his editorial chair had come to nothing, a result Cahan attributed to the influence of Sir Charles Tupper* and his son Charles Hibbert*. Both were occasional critics of Herald policies.
A strong British imperialist and Canadian nationalist in a province troubled by secessionist sentiments in the late 1860s and mid 1880s, Stewart fought or ignored proposals for better financial arrangements with the federal government, including at least one modest recommendation from his provincial party. His faith in confederation, as drawn in 1867, was undimmed to the end; he found little wrong even in the decline of Nova Scotia's political and financial influence in the country during the first decade of the 20th century. To these and other minority views he brought an uncompromising attitude and a fiercely partisan prose style that hid from all but a few friends a gentle, considerate, sometimes lonely soul. Martin Joseph Griffin, his predecessor as Herald editor and no stranger himself to acerbic prose, captured the paradox when he wrote, "You think him gloomy, find him gay / Believe him fierce and find him kindly."
Stewart's death from burns suffered in his home caused confusion as well as sorrow in his family; although a lawyer, he died intestate, his plans for the Herald and Mail unclear. In the absence of effective family opposition, Dennis soon assumed the shares of a man whose legacy to the community is a collection of 3,200 books, some rare, in the Killam Memorial Library of Dalhousie University. Chiefly of interest to students of English and of 19th-century Canadian history, it is another evidence of the strong intellectual interests of leading Canadian journalists of the time.
[Information contained in the following sources supports references to John James Stewart and his activities in my study, Red line: the "Chronicle-Herald" and the "Mail-Star," 1875–1954 (Halifax, 1986), 4–5, 13, 17–19, 22–29, 33–37, 42, 45–60, 65–67, 77–79, 87, 91–95, 212, 220, 319, 356. Specific citations in these sources are noted at the end of each chapter. w.d.m.]
Archival material on Stewart is found in three collections: among the Stewart family papers at PANS, MG 1, 1056A-57C; in the J. J. Stewart papers at Dalhousie Univ. Arch. (Halifax), MS 2-193; and in the J. J. Stewart coll. at Dalhousie Univ. Library, Special Coll., which preserves the subject's extensive library of 18th- and 19th-century books, pamphlets, and almanacs. The Stewart collection also contains a portrait of the subject, which is reproduced on p.86 of Red line.
House of Lords Record Office (London), Beaverbrook papers, ser.G1, file 1 (photocopies in PANS, MG 3, 6149, docs.1a-b). NA, MG 26, A (mfm. at PANS); MG 26, D; MG 27, I, E10. Halifax Herald, 28 Feb. 1907. William Miller, Incidents in the political career of the late Sir John Thompson not contained in Mr. J. Castell Hopkins' book ([Arichat, N.S., 1895]).
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What? You expected me - as "Mr. Transparency" - to disapprove? Fact is, he has done us a favor by making things so stark, turning this whole thing into a massive IQ test.
Stanford University historian Frances Fukuyama - who famously wrote in The End of History and The Last Man that "history" as such would end in the early 21st Century, as liberal-market democracy took over around the world — was on NPR in early April. Not happy at all with Trump, or the state or things in general — he also flails about, eager to rationalize that none of this could possibly be his fault! As always, Fukuyama is very smart and has interesting things to say. And - again, as always — he turns out to be the same Bushite court intellectual, diverting attention away from the culprits who re-ignited a debilitating, almost-hot phase of the American Civil War.
As a faithful servant of the oligarchic caste, the last thing this history professor will ever glance at is the central, historical fact of 6000 years — that the great enemy of liberal democracy and enlightenment and flat-fair market competition has always been cabals of conniving and conspiring aristocratic cheaters, whether they be the king-cronies that real Tea Partiers rebelled against, in 1775, or the plantation lords of 1861, or czarist boyars, or the Marxist commissars who replaced them exactly a century ago (with a few superficial changes of nomenclature).
Fukuyama's aristocratism reveals itself in paragraph after paragraph, as he attributes the victory of Donald Trump to 'democracy.' And thus, he accomplishes three insidious goals. First, while frowning in disapproval, he also validates that Trumpian triumph 'as popular will,' ignoring the fact that American voters have sanctioned Republican control of the Presidency and Congress with actual majorities only once out of the last seven elections, and decidedly not this one.
Second is the correlated fact that the GOP Lords have accomplished all this by cheating. Top to bottom, inside-out, via gerrymandering, weaponized fakery, voter suppression, rigged voting machines, dirty tricks, collusion with hostile foreign powers and their open war on all "fact" professions. Of course, this is bringing us steadily closer to the same suite of methods that were used by oligarchs across history — e.g. Roman elites contorting the will of supposedly sovereign citizens. Indeed, Prof. Fukayama's patrons are replicating exactly the same mafia methods that maintain Putinist dominance in Russia… and their seizure of power in the USA.
But the richest sub-text offered by this subtly manipulative Machiavelli-to-New-Medicis comes via implication number three. By deriding the Trump putsch result as 'populism,' Prof. Fukayama lays groundwork for the Big Narrative that will pour forth when Trumpism spectacularly fails. A narrative that populism — and hence popular will and hence democracy — cannot be trusted. This propaganda already pours from Moscow and Beijing — that there is no true democracy and mobs are dangerous. Those reactionary centers already cite Trumpism as proof! When in fact…
…all that these recent calamities demonstrate is that civil war is the great American failure mode. That it this 250-year, recurring fever is psychological and cultural, not based upon logic or self-interest. And that the Confederacy can be re-ignited out of one-third of America, the third that truly is a gullible mob.
Oh, Francis Fukayhama does allude to 'wealth & power' in the following: "Quite honestly, you know, well before Donald Trump began saying this, it wasn't working well. You know, Congress couldn't pass budgets, it couldn't - you know, it was very deadlocked. Plus - which I think there's a general feeling that interest groups, people with a lot of wealth and power, have a disproportionate say in the way that our democracy works. And so all of these put together, the institutional shortcomings and the socio-economic impacts of globalization, I think, prepared the ground for a rise of a populist."
Only notice how he thereby portrays Trump's "populist" surge as resistance against that wealth and power, instead of frenetic subservience to oligarchic lordship, which has always been the confederate theme.
== Recurring Russia ==
"Identified by the Soviet spy chief as a man who "wishes to be in politics for business reasons." The vain and superficial new president 'Powell,' says a Washington insider, "just came out of nowhere. He was one of six or seven possible runners. A complete outsider, then—boom, he was the Republican candidate," with the added appeal of not being a professional politician.
"Meanwhile, Powell's wife, who doesn't like the political world and from whom he leads a separate life, remains in the family home with their young son instead of moving to Washington." … "The new president, according to his campaign manager-cum-sleeper agent Andrew Dempsey, enjoys the trappings of office "like a kid in a toy shop" but is somewhat fuzzier on policy beyond promising "to slash taxes, cut unemployment, and achieve peace on earth."
It's not quite the same level of stunning prescience that I credited earlier to Robert Heinlein, in his astonishing afterword to REVOLT IN 2100. But still, chilling and thought-provoking and something to buy for that uncle of yours.
The wrongly convicted man portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in the stage play of "Exonerated" is now free, but Texas authorities haven't yet revised his record so he is still a murderer on paper. Dreyfuss asks that people raise a fuss.
Very interesting! Only note:
1- Trump's Electoral College tally does drop.
2- Distributing electors with two at-large per state retains the inherent gerrymandering of the Senate, wherein small-rural states get a huge advantage.
3- These results are especially pernicious because the rest of the electors are allocated to gerrymandered congressional districts, reflecting the rigging that already has made the U.S. House of Representatives a warped betrayal of the will of the people.
== Special counsels and investigators == And no, I have little to say about the Comey firing thing. Not right now. Except to point out that members of the intelligence communities will not be easily cowed. Post Watergate there was a law that allowed three federal judges to appoint an independent counsel. The law was then used to set SIX IC's to work, hounding Bill Clinton and five of his cabinet secretaries... with the result that... all they found was that Clinton lied about some third-base nookie in a hallway. That's it. Name one other time in American — or human — history, when an administration spanning 8 years had zero scandals or indictments concerning malfeasance in the performance of official duties. It has happened twice in American — or human — history. The administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Name another! After enduring 7 years of these trumped-up witch hunts, the Democrats fell for the real reason for it all, the trap. They went along with canceling the special counsel law. Which was the GOP's aim, all along. Now that law is history and it can only be done within the Justice Department, headed by Jeff False-Recusal Sessions. Well, well. The more you know. |


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text: Hyssop (AZVB; Sept. ussopos), a plant which is referred to in a few passages of Holy Writ, and which cannot be identified with certainty at the present day. Its existence in Egypt is proved by Ex., xii, 22, wherein Moses is represented as bidding the elders of Israel to take a bunch of hyssop and to sprinkle with it the blood of the paschal lamb upon the lintel and the side posts of the doors of their dwellings. In the wilderness hyssop was also ready at hand, as can be inferred from Ex., xxiv, 8, completed by Heb., ix, 19, according to which Israel's great lawgiver sprinkled the Hebrews with hyssop dipped in the blood of victims, at the sealing of the old covenant between Yahweh and His people. The references to hyssop contained in the Mosaic ritual show clearly that it was a common plant in the peninsula of Sinai and in the land of Chanaan, and disclose its principal uses among the Hebrews. Thus, it is with hyssop that the blood of a bird offered in sacrifice is to be sprinkled for the cleansing of a man or a house affected with leprosy (Lev., xiv, 4-7, 49-51); it is with it, too, that the sprinkling of the water of purification must be made at the cleansing of a tent, a person, or a vessel polluted by the touch of a dead body (Num., xix, 8). Besides being thus used as an instrument in the act of sprinkling, hyssop was employed as one of the elements to be burned in the preparation of the water of purification itself (Num., xix, 6). It is not therefore surprising to find that this manifold and intimate connection of hyssop with the various purifications of the Old Law led the Psalmist (Ps. 1 [Heb. li], 9) to regard the sprinkling with hyssop as symbolical of a thorough purification of the heart, a view which the Catholic Church has made her own in the ceremony of the Asperges which usually begins the solemn offering of Holy Mass. Nor is it surprising to find that this same connection of hyssop with the various cleansings of the Mosaic Law suggested to many writers the identification of that plant with the Hysso pus officinalis, or common hyssop, with which they were particularly acquainted, and the detergent properties of which they not unnaturally thought had induced the Hebrew legislator to select it as especially fit for the purificatory services in Israel. However widely received in the past, such identification is now commonly rejected for this reason, among others, that the' Hyssopus officinalis appears to have been unknown in ancient Syria and Egypt. The plant, which at the present day, is considered as more probably the hyssop of the Mosaic ritual, is the Origanum maru. Like the Hysso pus officinalis it belongs to the family of the labiatae, has aromatic and detergent properties, and can be easily made into a bunch for purposes of sprinkling. The following are some of its particular claims to be considered as the hyssop spoken of in the Old Testament. In the first place, it is to the Origanum—not to the Hyssopus officinalis—that all ancient tradition points when referring to the hyssop of the Scriptures. In the next place, its Egyptian name of supho, is clearly allied to the Aramaic zufo and the Hebrew ez8b. Lastly, the Origanum maru grows on the walls of all the terraces throughout Palestine and Syria. This last claim in favor of the identification of the hyssop of the Old Testament with the Origanum maru, is in distinct harmony with III Kings, iv, 33 (Heb. I Kings, iv, 33) where we read that Solomon "treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall". The chief difficulty in the way of this identification is drawn from John, xix, 29, where it is stated that some of those present at Christ's Passion "putting a sponge full of vinegar about (or rather: upon) hyssop, put it to his mouth". It is oftentimes supposed that the stalk of the Origanum maru would be too short and too slender for the purposes described in this passage, and that another plant with a longer and firmer stem, for instance, the caper-plant (capparis spinosa) is the one meant by the Fourth Evangelist. This supposition, however, does not appear necessary to many commentators. They think that the cross whereon Jesus lay was not such a lofty object as is assumed by the opponents of the identification, and that in consequence the Origanum maru, some 40 or 50 centimeters in length, and undoubtedly near at hand on Calvary, was used either alone, or together with a reed (cf. Matt., xxvii, 29; Mark, xv, 36) to carry the sponge dipped in vinegar to the lips of the Savior. Numerous other plants, more or less akin to the Origanum maru are also regarded, and indeed with some probability, as the hyssop spoken of in Holy Writ.


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BERLIN — Four Western Maryland counties have formed a coalition in the hopes of presenting a unified voice in Annapolis and are seeking to expand the organization to the Eastern Shore, but at least one Lower Shore county appears to have little interest in joining the party.
Elected officials in Carroll, Frederick, Alleghany and Washington counties last week announced the formation of the Maryland Rural Counties Coalition, a union of sorts formed in the hopes of giving rural Maryland a stronger voice in Annapolis during the upcoming General Assembly session. The coalition was formed out of the rural counties' shared opposition to the governor's proposed Plan Maryland, which has come under fire from rural areas in every corner of the state.
In a larger sense, however, the Maryland Rural Counties Coalition is an effort by the agrarian areas apart from the highly developed, urban and suburban central areas of the state, a unified voice on several issues likely to surface during the upcoming session. The coalition is an effort to combine the collective resources of the counties involved.
"Rural Maryland often finds itself at a strategic disadvantage from policy decisions made by the Maryland General Assembly because the non-rural counties often speak as one, thus prevailing," said Frederick County Commission President Blaine Young this week.
Similarly, Washington County Commission President Terry Baker called the Rural Maryland Coalition a "historic first" and an unprecedented opportunity for other rural counties to join. "Can one truly imagine the strength of such a strategic alliance," he said.
Already the four-member coalition has designs on adding to that strength with an expansion to include all rural counties on both sides of the bridge. The original four are hoping to expand to an Association of Western, Agricultural, Rural and Eastern Shore Counties, or AWARE, with the purpose of representing the unique needs and perspectives of the rural areas of the state.
The coalition is reaching out to the rural counties on the Lower Shore including Worcester and Wicomico, but while the counties clearly share some of the same ideas, particularly when it comes to Plan Maryland, they are not exactly embracing the idea of joining the coalition.
"We are definitely aware of it and we know a little bit about it, but we're not interested in joining at this time," said Worcester County Administrator Gerry Mason. "There hasn't been any discussion among the commissioners and I don't think there's any sentiment in favor of it."


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If you're reading this, there's a very good chance that you've heard about The Sims. It's been difficult to escape the popular franchise's web, what with two full games and a seemingly endless stream of expansions. The first thing you may be asking, then, is whether The Sims 3 is worth playing, or if it's just more of the same. Well, it most certainly is worth it, and yes, in some ways it is more of the same. But in this case, that's a very good thing. For anyone who's played The Sims or its first sequel, this familiarity will let them ease into it, feeling like a welcomed guest rather than an outsider. But this doesn't make The Sims 3 a simple rehash of what's come before. Instead, returning elements have been energized and extended by a number of terrific improvements, such as expanded customization tools, additional tools for interaction with other sims (and other players), and more tangible goals and rewards. Most importantly, the free-to-explore town makes you feel like part of an entire virtual society--a feature approximated but never fully realized in the previous games. By blending together the old and the new, developer Maxis has created the best, most charming game yet in the series.
If you're new to the series, here's a quick primer. The Sims 3 is a virtual life simulator. In it, you take control of a character called a sim, or an entire household of them. Sims have needs; they need to empty their bladders, to eat, to sleep, to bathe, to have fun, to socialize. It's real life boiled down to simple mechanics, but within these mechanics lies an entire universe of possibilities. Your sims can have babies who will cry in the middle of the night, needing their diapers changed. You can manage their personal development by sending them to the gym to work out, or by telling them to fix a broken television, or by having them play chess, or by sending them to the park to play the guitar. Sims go to work to earn simoleans (money, of course) so they can buy better things for their homes and redecorate--or just buy a brand-new home. They make friends and enemies, they go swimming, and they clog up the toilet. In other words, they act a whole lot like real people, except that they yammer in a delightful gibberish called simlish and communicate via speech bubbles that appear over their heads. It all sounds terribly mundane, but balancing the needs of your sims and tending to your digital playmates can keep you happily glued to your monitor for hours at a time.
For experienced Sims players, the laundry list of new features in The Sims 3 is extensive, but the one overhaul that has the biggest impact on the game is how seamlessly you can now move around your virtual town. In previous games, the presence of various neighborhoods led to a disjointed experience, so you rarely felt like you were in a living world. Now, your burb is freely explorable, so traveling to the gym, the art gallery, or your place of work means walking, biking, driving, or taxiing to the location in question without any loading times to break things up. Want your sim to head to the library and read up on the latest mystery? Just zoom out to the city map and select your destination, and your sim will travel there automatically, using the most efficient means of transportation. You might even get the option to invite someone along with you, so you won't have to head to the diner alone if you've got a friend or acquaintance nearby who's available to tag along.
The effect of the open town has a profound influence on the community aspects of The Sims 3. You can call other sims and invite them over using your handy cell phone, but if you're feeling adventurous, just head directly to another sim's house and introduce yourself. Or travel to one of the many public venues: the beach, the park, even the graveyard. In these places, you will have a chance to interact with other sims, and there may even be surprises in store if you happen to be in the right place at the right time. For example, you might be able to join a picnic in progress, or a midnight visit to the cemetery may introduce you to some new see-through pals. The game also provides spontaneous opportunities for your sims to socialize. Other sims will call you on the phone; if you're growing a garden, they may ask you to bring some veggies over in exchange for a few simoleans; or perhaps they'll ask you to repair a broken appliance for them. Either way, these tasks send you out on the town where you'll run into other sims, which gives you a sense of being part of a society that exists outside of your realm of influence.
Those social opportunities often result from the traits that you assign your sims during creation. These social traits are another new feature, and they influence how your sims will behave in certain situations, the careers that they will most likely excel in, the conversation options available, and many other aspects of daily sim life. You can select up to five traits for your sim, and there are a lot to choose from. So if you'd like to re-create your insane, neurotic, kleptomaniac aunt within the game, then you can do that, and those traits in turn will influence various aspects of her virtual life. For example, a sim with the neurotic trait can increase his or her happiness level by compulsively checking the sink and stove, but will also be prone to random freak-outs during moments of stress. Not only will a sim with the neat trait automatically clean almost everything, but his or her fun levels will actually rise in the process.
Of course, when you create a sim, you're choosing more than just personality traits. The physical customization options are far more extensive than before. Sliders let you determine skin color and tweak various facial features, color wheels let you settle on exact clothing hues, and there are a number of accessories, hair styles, and so on to choose from. Although it would be nice to have had even more options in some cases (for example, men's available hair styles seem limited), there's a good chance that you can still create a sim that resembles your kleptomaniac aunt. There's also a good chance that you can outfit her in that crazy polka-dot dress she wears, thanks to the Create a Style feature, which lets you choose from a huge number of patterns (even those used for nonclothing items such as masonry and linoleum) and tweak their colors as you see fit. If you want to put your klepto sim in a beautiful, subtle ball gown, then by all means, go for it. On the other hand, if she prefers swimsuits made of bricks, well, no one's going to judge (except maybe the aunt she's based on).
Getting sims together is usually a guaranteed laugh. As before, you can just sit back and let things happen if you prefer, and the AI does a good job with automated behavior; sims will act in ways remarkably true to the personality that you've established for them. But directing social encounters often yields even more hysterical results, and your sims' traits allow you to direct conversations more easily than before. There's a wider array of conversation topics when meeting up with others, and you'll want to play around with all of them just to see how your friends react. Try jumping into a romantic interest's arms--he may not catch you! Take your weakling sim to the gym and watch what happens on the treadmill; kiss another sim in front of your husband and watch the slaps ensue. Or generate your own masochistic amusement by denying your sims the use of a toilet, or putting them in a room without doors. Watching the expressive animations and listening to the dramatic vocal inflections is always a delight, whether it's your toddler sim chewing on her xylophone mallets or the man of the house throwing a tantrum because there are rotting leftovers in the fridge.
If you're not inclined toward such cruelty, you're better off making your sims happy by being aware of their needs and desires. You'll set a long-term goal as the final step when creating your sim, choosing from five that are generated based on the traits that you assigned. You may want to be surrounded by family, or be a famous musician, or become an international superspy, or be superpopular. Consequently, you'll need to make choices to bring these aspirations to fruition. If your sim wants to be a famous chef, take the right career track when browsing the paper; go to the bookstore and buy cookbooks to increase your cooking skills; and, of course, cook as often as you can to keep the skill bar moving ever upward. You can even take cooking classes to speed up the process, though it will cost you simoleans. But not every goal must be for the long haul; you can elevate a sim's mood and earn happiness points by accomplishing smaller tasks that pop up. Some of these are relatively simple: make the bed! Others are a little more time-consuming: upgrade five appliances! With the points you earn, you can then purchase permanent goodies such as a steel bladder (never need to pee again!), or always throwing the perfect party, or discovering the traits of other sims much more quickly. The system is more rewarding than The Sims 2's aspirations/fears system because it focuses on rewards and eliminates the sometimes-frustrating business of therapists and insanity. Actually, you can turn aging off entirely if you wish, or adjust the length of a sim's lifetime directly in the game options. In any case, the new aspiration mechanics are more about positive reinforcement than avoiding negative consequences, and the game is better for it.
The Sims 3 balances its rewards well, not just within aspirations, but within career and financial progression as well. Like real people, your sims will always want better stuff, a nicer house, and a prettier yard. You'll start with meager means, but as you progress down your chosen career track, you'll earn more money and work less, giving you more time for the fun stuff. Like before, you won't actually guide your sim through the workday, but you will be able to select something to focus on during the day, such as getting to know your coworkers or pursuing independent research. Doing so earns extra benefits; for example, studying music theory will increase your logic skill, letting you kill two birds (a paycheck and an improved skill) with one stone. You'll also be presented with all sorts of choices along the way. Read a particular book or deliver some documents to city hall to improve your standing with the boss, and you might earn a raise. You might even get an opportunity to change career tracks completely (perhaps the military has had an eye on your scientist). As it happens, these kinds of possibilities aren't just related to your job. Perhaps the local school is having a bake sale; you might be invited to whip up some cookies. Thankfully, managing your basic needs--hunger, bladder, and so on--takes less effort than before, giving you more chances to take advantage of these occasions.
Your coffers will grow, at which point you'll be spending time in Buy and Build modes. The Create a Style concept is at work here too, so you'll be able to customize furniture, appliances, and even window panes if you so desire. For example, you can go so far as to paint almost every brick in the wall pattern if you want to get that in-depth. Better stuff makes for a more automated and happier life, and it also lets aspiring architects and landscapers showcase their creativity. The tools work much the same as before, though the terrain and terrain-painting tools are easier to use than ever, and the most enthusiastic designers can still use cheat codes to manipulate things further (some of which are handily included in the game's readme file). And if you really take pride in your handiwork, The Sims 3's online features are much better integrated than before, though there is still room for growth in this area. From the game launcher, you can upload and download shared content such as sims, outfits, household objects, and so on. This kind of social exchange has always been an important aspect of The Sims, though in light of the tight online integration seen in games such as Spore, there are some missed opportunities here. For example, placing the browser directly in the game client would have made for a more seamless experience. And though the ability to upload movies to The Sims 3 Web site and edit them is a great new feature, you still have to access this feature through your Web browser. The good news is that there are some great items ready to download the moment you register an account online, including an entire town (which is, thankfully, free). However, most official content requires you to spend SimPoints, which cost real money.
That nickel-and-diming points to what is probably The Sims 3's main drawback: Although the game includes a whole lot of content, it still has noticeable holes that the expansions to previous Sims games have already filled. Previous add-ons offered pets to play with, seasonal weather, magical items, and other fun content. None of that is featured in The Sims 3, and certain aspects of the series, such as the events of the standard workday, have gone curiously unexplored. The established pattern of Sims expansion packs make these areas of opportunity all the more apparent, especially when you'd expect a sequel to include most of the popular features of the games that led up to it.
One of the reasons for the franchise's success is how easy the games are to run on a variety of computers, and The Sims 3 is no exception; it's very scalable, so chances are that if you have a relatively modern PC, you'll probably be able to run the game. The visuals are colorful and crisp, and a noticeable step up from The Sims 2. Sim movements continue to be the highlight of the presentation, and zooming in close is always a fun treat, especially when your sims are engaging in a particularly animated exchange, such as telling a joke. Buildings like the theater and city hall look attractive, and the soft sway of trees and bushes makes the town look pleasantly suburban. Nevertheless, the game's performance does continue some unfortunate trends of Sims games past. Performance is a bit sluggish when you scroll across the town or follow your sim as he or she travels. And though the pathfinding has improved, sims sometimes still have difficulties getting from point A to point B without going through some odd animations or complaining that there's someone in the way. Unsurprisingly, the game sounds absolutely charming. The jaunty tunes that accompany the Build and Buy modes and the tunes that play when you turn on the radio are terrific, perhaps the best in the series. Some sound effects are recycled, but The Sims 3 doesn't feel cheapened as a result; it strikes a chord of familiarity that works to the game's benefit.
So what is it that makes The Sims 3 even more addictive than its predecessors? It's partially due to the deft handling of rewards; it doles out new social options, new aspirations, and the possibility of better furniture and wood flooring at a slow but even pace, which keeps you tied to your computer for hours at a time. It offers the element of surprise, showing off its abundant charms through funny social interactions that make you want to be part of the improved virtual community. Although it could have offered even more right out of the box, there's still an awful lot of content here, and it's bound to put a smile on almost anyone's face.


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Sibel Edmonds
From WikiLeaks
Blowing the whistle on FBI failures, incompetence and cover-ups.
A former FBI translator naturalized American citizen of Turkish descent, Edmonds was fired in 2002 by the FBI for attempting to report cover-ups of security issues, potential espionage, and incompetence. She has been gagged under state secrets privilege in her efforts to go to court on these issues, including a rejection recently by the United States Supreme Court to hear her case without comment. She is a founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, which is looking to lobby congress and help other whistleblowers with legal and other forms of assistance.
- http://123realchange.blogspot.com/ (Sibel's own personal blog featuring her Project Expose MSM)
- http://lukery.blogspot.com/ (Investigative Reporter Luke Ryland's blog devoted to Sibel's case)
- http://www.nswbc.org/ (The National Security Whistleblower's Coalition - founded by Sibel)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblowing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds
- Kill the messenger, French documentary about Sibel Edmonds
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_%28film%29
- http://sibeledmonds.blogspot.com/ (blog about the documentary)


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NEW YORK >> Brands have figured out how to get Super Bowl buzz without paying Super Bowl bucks.
Some of the companies that had the most success during the game were not official sponsors.
Newcastle beer created a hit online campaign spoofing the self-importance of Super Bowl ads. J.C. Penney generated attention on Twitter by posting nonsensical tweets during the game. And Esurance grabbed the spotlight by offering to give away $1.5 million in an ad that aired just after the game ended.
It's the latest proof that companies don't need to pay $4 million to capture the 111.5 million Super Bowl watchers. It's mostly the result of the growing popularity of social media to reach a large number of people who are watching the game on a big screen TV with another eye on their cellphone or tablet computer.
Advertisers really started realizing the power of social media last year after Oreo seized the opportunity when the Super Bowl game was interrupted by a 34-minute power outage. The cookie maker posted a pic of an Oreo that was partially in the dark and tweeted "You can still dunk in the dark." It was retweeted and mentioned on Facebook thousands of times.
"There's an opportunity created by social media for people to have conversation with the Super Bowl-watching consumer … without having to pay the $4 million," said Kelly O'Keefe, professor of brand strategy at the Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter.
Newcastle created a pseudo "Behind the Scenes" video starring "Up in the Air" actress Anna Kendrick, riffing on being asked to star in a Super Bowl ad — the words 'Super Bowl' are bleeped out — by Newcastle. Then, the company backed out of the deal.
"I don't think of myself as beer commercial babe hot," she said in the video. "I'm hot but like approachable hot, like the hottest girl in your improv-class hot."
The ad garnered more than 4.3 million views on YouTube, more than some actual Super Bowl commercials. Other videos that were part of the campaign showed storyboards for "mega huge" ads that Newcastle said they would have made for the Super Bowl. Newcastle said the ads have been viewed 9 million times collectively.
"Not participating in the Super Bowl fit the Newcastle brand. It's not a showy brand," said O'Keefe, the professor. "But they certainly became part of the Super Bowl conversation."
Esurance, a part of Allstate Insurance, saved a bundle by buying the first ad after the Super Bowl ended. But it still became one of the most talked about spots.
In the ad, "Office" actor John Krasinski sits in front of a pile of money and said Esurance saved $1.5 million by buying a post-Super Bowl ad, and planned to give it away to someone who tweets hashtag #EsuranceSave30 by 4 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday.
Within a minute after the commercial aired, the company had 200,000 entries. The hashtag has stayed the top trending hashtag on Twitter since the spot ran. And as of Monday, Esurance had gotten 2.57 million entries and its Twitter following went from 8,900 to 187,000 followers.
"It was a terrific media buy," said O'Keefe. "Everybody's been talking about it."
J.C. Penney took a slightly weirder route, but it got people talking.
During the Super Bowl, the official Twitter handle of J.C. Penney started sending out odd tweets, like, "Who kkmew theis was ghiong tob e a baweball ghamle. #lowsscorinh 5_0."
That sparked speculation that the account had been hacked, or the person in charge of the handle was inebriated. But soon J.C. Penney revealed it was all a prank to promote the hashtag #TweetingWithMittens.
Opinion was split over whether this stunt actually helped build J.C. Penney's brand. But it definitely captured people's attention during the Super Bowl, and cost nothing.
J.C. Penney said it gained over 10,000 followers on Super Bowl Sunday, received over 40,000 @jcpenney mentions and 1,800 mentions of the hashtag #tweetingwithmittens.
"Standing on the sidelines, as opposed to being part of the Super Bowl, and aiming to be a part of the conversation, is really smart," said O'Keefe, the brand professor.